The first artist I looked at was Jim Golden. He takes photos of collections, normally mundane objects and lays them out in a fairly simple way. He relies on the amount of objects usually shown in one photo to make them interesting. I responded to his work by doing my own photo shoot of random things I had in my pocket and the bottom of my bag. I did this because I think it's interesting how everyone has little collections of things that they keep with them, usually without even knowing. For me claustrophobia is about space, or lack of it, and chaos. I used the same 15 or so items in each of the three photos I took and changed the spacing and how they were organized. I think they created some really interesting photos which portray what I was trying to say about how space and the way objects are organized can completely change the way we see them. I think this was really successful but could be made even better if I was able to do this on an even larger scale. To relate it to fashion I want to use objects like buttons, zips, poppers or just have loads of one detail like ruffles, pleats, collars etc.
Next I looked at a collection by Comme des Garcons which was all about monsters and clothes taking over the body. As a response I did a photo shoot where my friend started off with just one layer of clothing and after each photo we added another layer. By the end she looked completely overwhelmed by loads of clothes, I would have loved to keep adding but we'd run out of clothes to use and I could tell she was becoming uncomfortable. I really love how this turned out, I can imagine a garment that is only one piece but looks like its made from loads of layers and different items of clothing. I think there are a lot of ways I could develop this and will probably do some collages to help generate more ideas from this idea of how things can overwhelm a body.
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